GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon RX 480
CORE STATE
Ellesmere
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1266 MHz
TDP
150 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
VS
GEFORCE
RTX A1000
CORE STATE
GA107
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1462 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2024
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
RX 480
RTX A1000
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,304
2,304
0.0%
Shaders
2,304
2,304
0.0%
TMUs
144
72
-50.0%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
36
—
SM Count
—
18
Clocks
Base Clock
1120 MHz
727 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1462 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
12 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
8 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
8,192
8,192
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
192.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
46.78 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
105.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS
6.737 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
105.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
6.737 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
18
Tensor Cores
—
72
Power
TDP
150 W
50 W
TDP (W)
150
50
-66.7%
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Ampere
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GA107
Generation
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Workstation Ampere
(Ax000)
Process Size
14 nm
8 nm
Transistors
5,700 million
8,700 million
Die Size
232 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
Samsung
Density
24.6M / mm²
43.5M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
8.6
Shader Model
6.7
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
240 mm
9.4 inches
163 mm
6.4 inches
Height
95 mm
3.7 inches
69 mm
2.7 inches
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
229 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
Pirate Islands
Quadro Turing
Successor
Polaris
Workstation Ada